Pusey's Annual Report Heralds $35 Million Drive for Science

Harvard will have to raise $35 million for undergraduate and graduate education in science, President Pusey told the Board of Overseers in his annual report, released yesterday.

"So able is the constellation of scientists now working at Harvard. . .and so promising the students at all levels who come to work with our Faculty, that we have no alternative now but to meet this need," Pusey said.

The fund drive will be the largest conducted by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences since the Program for Harvard College, a decade ago.

Pusey outlined four other fund drives and suggested that the University's friends may be in for a lot of mail before Harvard's capital needs are satisfied. Among the programs he specified were an $11.6 million drive for a new home for the School of Design; a $15 million effort to expand the Law School's space; and an already-announced drive for $6 million to help build the International Studies Building.

Pusey also announced that former Secretary of the Treasury C. Douglas Dillon '31 would lead a committee to raise the International Studies funds, while Robert Amory '36, an Overseer, will chair the Law School fund drive.

The Arts and Sciences Fund drive is not as far advanced as any of these. No formal announcement of the membership of the committee to raise the money or of the precise goals of the drive is expected for at least a month. Some of the money is expected to be used for the construction of an Undergraduate Science Center.

The report also said that the School of Dental Medicine will need $12.4 million for an expansion program that would more than double its student body.

Just to make potential donors feel a slightly greater quiver in their wallets, Pusey said that "there continues to be pressing needs for additional capital funds in the School of Education, the Divinity School, the Business School, the School of Public Health, still in the Medical and no less in the Dental School, in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, in Radcliffe College, for the Nieman program and the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies at the Villa I Tatti, and in a variety of other centers, departments and institutions within the University."

Pusey's report outlined developments at the University during the past year. He mentioned the Ford Foundation's $11.5 million grant for International Studies, the Canaday Fund for the Humanities, and the Charles Warren Center for American History.

He also discussed the effects of the Scheffler report on the Graduate School of Education and the Doty Report on General Education. He called the Report "neither a dramatic nor an iconoclastic document, reasoned and moderate," and said that "it promises effectively to set a course and provide, if not a new, at least a renewed sense of direction for the School."

"Ambiguous Proposal

Pusey attributed the defeat of the Doty Report by the Faculty to "an ambiguous proposal to arrange the fields of knowledge into two curricular divisions, rather than in the customary three, for purposes of General Education."

But much of the report, he added, was accepted, and he said the Faculty's votes proved that the group wanted to continue and strengthen the program.

The report concludes with Pusey's summary of Harvard's purpose: "Can it indeed be anything less than to contribute to the best of our ability to the furtherance of civilized life?"

He cited a list of problems, led by population and poverty, that world civilization faces, and said it was Harvard's task to help solve these problems. "And even more important for the long run," he said, universities "must also continue to win victories on the battlefields of pure learning which are surely themselves to be numbered among the most convincing evidences of civilization. It is an exciting but Sisyphean task."